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Intolerant intolerance

By Spencer Gear - posted Thursday, 21 February 2019


ABC News:

ABC News Brisbane, Qld reported that 'Wintour said when Australia passed same-sex marriage in 2017, "the world sang in celebration" with it'. Wintour continued:

"Intolerance has no place in tennis. What we love [is] watching these remarkable men and women exceed themselves while being themselves in many different forms.

"Margaret Court was a champion on the court but a meeting point for players of all nations, preferences, and backgrounds should celebrate somebody who was a champion off the court as well."

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Do you hear Wintour's 'off the court' intolerance towards Margaret Court's sexual values as a Christian?

This article quoted Margaret Court's views about the approach of her opponents who call for the renaming of the Margaret Court Arena at Melbourne Park. Court called this 'another example of freedom of religion under threat…. I should be able to have my say as a minister of the Gospel…. I believe I shouldn't be bullied for what I did in my past'.

Not a word was stated in this article about Wintour's intolerance towards Margaret Court's views.

Channel 9:

MSN Channel 9 explained the Wintour event with similar quotes to those by The Age and ABC News Brisbane about Primer Minister Scott Morrison and tennis champion and now Christian minister, Margaret Court.

Wintour didn't hold back about her views on the proposed amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act:

""That no-one can be expelled from school for their orientation should not require clarification," Wintour added, referring to previous proposals for the Sex Discrimination Act to be amended in a way to allow religious schools to do so.

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"A government should protect its people, not make it unclear whether they will be accepted and we are struggling with these issues in the United States as well."

This article failed to expose Wintour's own intolerance in her speech.

News.com.au

News.com.au provided similar details on the Wintour speech, with a sub-heading, 'Fashion legend Anna Wintour has taken a swipe at Australia's Prime Minister and one of our greatest tennis stars in a scathing speech'.

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Spencer Gear PhD (University of Pretoria, South Africa) is a retired counselling manager, independent researcher, retired minister of the The Christian & Missionary Alliance of Australia, and freelance writer living in Brisbane Qld, Australia.

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